When I’m 64

Life doesn’t stop when you hit your 60s and we’ve been asking people what they’ll be up to when they’re 64.

Few people said they’d be spending the childrens inheritance or putting their feet up. The most popular answers were lying on a beach, riding the worlds tallest rollercoaster and working in a job I love.
This is obviously just a small snapshot but it builds an interesting image of what old age might be for the hippy, glam rock and punk generations.

Aspirations are so much greater than those of previous generations. Retirement is an possibleness to realise lifelong dreams with people opting for adventurous travel destintations and the chance to challenge themselves. We might cringe a bit when we see older people in hoodies but by refusing to conform to the OAP stereotype they might be doing the rest of us a favour. Remember these people were the activists of the 60s, watched men walk on the moon, and lived through the industrial action of the 1970s – they are not going to grow old gracefully!

By the way, our favourite answers were:
“…dye my hair funny colours again without fear of it falling out”
“…enjoy sex, Toy Boy, G&Ts, lots of company and laughter!!!”

Everyone’s talking most the domestic tending Service

Gordon Brown’s fightback speech has been spun as the last roll of the dice by the media. And while there’s no consensus whether he’s rolled a double-six or snake eyes, it’s great that at the heart of the coverage has been the government’s idea for a new domestic tending Service.

It’s the first time that the generalized public hit caught this new idea and I hope it means that Labour intend to attain tending a key generalized election issue. Then we can all put each of the big parties under the spotlight and encounter out what they are going to do most fixing the ethnic tending and enabling every older person to live well.

It’s really important that Labour hit decided to call their idea the ‘National tending Service’. You can see the politics of it, it sounds like something for everyone, and aspires to be as valued as our domestic Health Service. The devil will be in the discourse though. Who pays and how? What hold can people expect? And will people really be in curb of thier own tending and hit choices that work for them? The significance of this being for everyone means that people will be healthy to understand it, know it could affect them and their loved-ones and we’ll hit a veritable speaking with every party most what they would do.

But we’ve got to attain sure it’s not a flash in the pan. Some directive pollsters said at conference that it’s not probable to be a big election issue. They said that, like climate change, the old population and operation tending for older people is big, inevitable and needs operation but the public hit not even started to really think most it and are implausible to cast their balloting on it. I think that’s pessimistic, we’ve got to ready coming back to the supply and ready it as high profle as possible. WRVS landed a slot on BBC News yesterday afternoon to talk most the proposals, coup – I did the honours being interviewed by Jon Sopel and I thought that at least the few thousands watching would start to think most this vital issue, but I was brought back down to earth when my partner told me that my mother-in-law’s key comment on the story was that I looked like I’d put on a lot of weight.

Clearly we need to encounter ways to attain fixing the ethnic tending crisis a story many times over before the election, and I had better get back to doing workouts with Davina.